Spelling errors occur frequently in educational settings, but their influence on automatic scoring is largely unknown. We therefore investigate the influence of spelling errors on content scoring performance using the example of the short answer data set of the Automated Student Assessment Prize (ASAP). We conduct an annotation study on the nature of spelling errors in the ASAP dataset and util...

We introduce a new approach to spellchecking for languages with extreme phonetic irregularities. The spelling for such languages can be significantly improved if knowledge about pronunciation and sound becomes the central part of the spelling algorithm. However, given a weak phoneme-grapheme-correspondence the standard spelling algorithms, which are rule-based or editdistance-based, are severel...

conclusions in veterans' family, psychological health of the veterans and marital adjustment of the parents have a significant relationship with their children's quality of life and happiness. results global severity index (gsi) scores of veterans and veteran's age were inversely correlated with the scores of children's quality of life, while marital adjustment of parents and number of rooms in...